A number of students who believed their ﬁnal season in Tiger
Stadium slipped away have gotten
a second chance, thanks to an online appeal form provided by Student Government.
The ticket ordering notiﬁcation emails, which would normally be found in students’ inboxes
weeks before their respective ordering windows, were missed by a
number of upperclassmen because
their emails were being sent to
spam. Last week, social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter
exploded with irate LSU students
who missed their football ticket ordering windows.
Once students began voicing
their displeasure on Facebook, SG

took notice.
“I sent it to our Chief of Staff
and told him that we needed to
jump on this, because if it happened to a couple of people, then
it likely happened to a lot, and it
turns out it did,” said SG Senate
Director of Communications David Holley. “That’s what prompted
[SG jumping on the issue] was just
seeing a couple people posting on
social media ticked off about it.”
After enough students complained, SG set up a form for
students to appeal their missed
tickets.
The appeal form was
made available at 5:30 p.m.

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334

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appealed their
missed tickets,

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of whom were

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10 percent of
whom were juniors

CONSTRUCTION

‘Easy
Streets II’
begins on
campus
Trey Labat
Staff Writer

Construction has begun on
phase one of the Easy Streets II
program, designed to ease trafﬁc
around campus.
The bulk of the construction will occur around Dalrymple
Drive, Inﬁrmary Road and Cypress Drive.
A major feature of the ﬁrst
phase includes new “sharrows”
— shared roadway bicycle markings — designed to encourage more students to bike to
campus.
Parking in the Tower Drive
area will be closed to B Plan
parkers. Trafﬁc will be allowed,
but will be limited to one lane
with ﬂagmen managing the ﬂow
of cars during construction.
Parking on Tower Drive
from South Stadium Drive
will also be eliminated in order to create a safer corridor for
CONSTRUCTION, see page 4

The Transition Advisory Team
discussed increasing research faculty funding, tenure evaluations
and maintaining faculty retention
on Monday afternoon.
To keep faculty at the University, TAT has recommended
increasing faculty funding from
$12 million to $55 million, adding graduate students to the research process and expanding
undergraduate research to build
a globally competitive research
enterprise.
Lee Grifﬁn, co-chair of the Finance and Revenue Subcommittee
and president and CEO of the LSU
Foundation said the way qualiﬁcations for tenure are measured for
research faculty members need to
be changed.

“Some professor’s research
or a professor that’s doing a lot of
good in terms of research and bringing things out of the lab whether it
be commerce, or a license, a patent or a start up, that doesn’t really count toward tenure,” Grifﬁn
said.
Grifﬁn said the qualiﬁcations
for tenure need to be updated and
especially include technological
transfer and discoveries.
Jim Firnberg, chair of the Research and Discovery Subcommittee, addressed the declining rate of
faculty retention and the need to
stabilize the faculty.
“Our faculties have not received raises in four years or
ﬁve. This will be the ﬁfth if they
don’t get a raise this year, and
we’ve been picked off by the
best universities in the country,”
Firnberg said.

TAT also suggested the University needs to implement aggressive student recruiting processes
on a state, national and international level.
Carroll Suggs, co-chair of
the Student Experience Subcommittee, said a higher recruitment
level would increase the graduate
and undergraduate populations
consistently, attract top students
nationally and internationally, increase graduate rates and increase
revenues from out of state
tuition.
Suggs said the University
has a recruiting team of “maybe”
six while Alabama has a team of
45.
Suggs suggested improving the student experience by
increasing the availability of
TRANSITION, see page 4

ANGELA MAJOR / The Daily Reveille

Lee Griffin speaks Monday at a Transition Advisory Team meeting in the LSU Energy,
Coast and Environment Building.

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INTERNATIONAL
Dubai pardons woman at center of
rape dispute on Monday
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates
(AP) — With her passport back
in hand, a Norwegian woman at
the center of a Dubai rape claim
dispute said Monday that officials
dropped her 16-month sentence
for having sex outside marriage
in the latest clash between the
city’s Islamic-based legal codes
and its international branding as a
Western-friendly haven.
“I am very, very happy,” Marte
Deborah Dalelv told The Associated Press after she was cleared by
the order of Dubai’s ruler. “I am
overjoyed.”
Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to
royal heir, name still unknown
LONDON (AP) — It’s a boy!
Prince William’s wife, Kate, gave
birth to a prince who is now third
in line to the British throne.
The child was born Monday afternoon, after many Britons
woke up to the news that Kate had
gone into labor with the couple’s
first child.
The royal birth announcement
said the boy was born at 4:24 p.m.
weighing 8 pounds, 6 ounces. The
announcement did not include
a name for the future monarch,
though one is expected to be revealed in the coming days.

Nation & World

KAMRAN JEBREILI / The Associated Press

Norwegian Marte Deborah Dalelv, 24,
shows her passport Monday at the
Norwegian Seaman’s Club in Dubai,
United Arab Emirates.

Frenzied crowds greet Pope Francis
in Brazil during his seven-day visit
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Frenzied crowds of Roman Catholics
mobbed the car carrying Pope
Francis on Monday when he returned to his home continent for
the first time as pontiff, embarking
on a seven-day visit meant to fan
the fervor of the faithful around the
globe.
During the pope’s first minutes
in Brazil, ecstatic believers forced
the closed Fiat to stop several times
as they swarmed around during the
drive from the airport to an official
opening ceremony in Rio’s center.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

Sex offender charged with slaying 3
kidnapped women in Cleveland

Funeral set for 6-year-old stabbing
victim who disappeared from bed

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP)
— The soul-searching has begun in
and around Cleveland — again —
as the chilling details emerge from
the latest missing-women case to
send a shiver through the metropolitan area.
A registered sex offender was
charged Monday with murder and
kidnapping in the slayings of three
women whose bodies were found
in plastic trash bags in a run-down
East Cleveland neighborhood. It is
the third major case in four years
of multiple killings or abductions
to haunt the Rust Belt metropolis.
Zimmerman helped four people out
of wrecked SUV in central Florida

DONALDSONVILLE (AP) —
Large photographs of 6-year-old
Ahlittia North were displayed on
easels near her small coffin at the
Christian Assembly Church in
Gonzales.
The child was stabbed to death
after disappearing from her mother’s suburban New Orleans apartment more than a week ago.
She was to be buried at the
First Baptist Church Cemetery in
Donaldsonville, where her father
and stepmother live.
Ahlittia disappeared after she
was put to bed on the night of Friday, July 12. Her body was found
in a trash bin near the apartment
three days later.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — George
Zimmerman helped rescue four
people from an overturned vehicle
in Florida last week — days after
he was cleared of all charges in the
shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
Seminole County Sheriff’s
spokeswoman Kim Cannaday
said in a statement that deputies
responding last Wednesday afternoon to the wreck in Sanford —
the Orlando suburb where Martin
was shot — found Zimmerman and
another man had already helped a
couple and their two children out
of a flipped SUV.

Landrieu, Cassidy compete to lower
flood insurance premiums
(AP) — U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu
and her Senate race challenger,
U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy, are jockeying for credit and prominence on
a high-profile problem for many
Louisiana residents: the skyrocketing cost of flood insurance premiums.
Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge,
worked with other lawmakers to
get a temporary fix through the
House that would delay the higher
premiums for one year.

Founding bishop of Lake Charles
Diocese dies, cause unknown
LAKE CHARLES (AP) — The
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lake
Charles has announced the death
of its founding bishop.
The Diocese said in a statement that 84-year-old Bishop Jude
Speyrer died Sunday in Opelousas.
The cause was not released as
of Monday morning.
Speyrer was ordained a priest
in the Lafayette Diocese in 1953.
He was installed as the first
bishop of the Lake Charles Diocese on April 25, 1980. He retired
on Dec. 12, 2000.

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The University School of
Human Resource Education and
Workforce Development is on the
move in 2013.
Formerly located in the Old
Forestry Building just south of the
Quad, the school can now be found
in 298 Coates Hall. Wet paint signs
and cardboard boxes still line the
hallway as the administration prepares for the upcoming school
session, and the new location will
look to benefit the school in the
future.
Michael Burnett, director of
the School of Human Resource
Education and Workforce Development, said the move to a
more centrally located area of
campus occurred for several
reasons.
“The Old Forestry Building

has been on the demolition list for
some years now, and it is not in the
long term plan for the campus,”
Burnett said. “The building is very
old, and it has a lot of maintenance
problems. While there was a concentrated space available, we were
given the opportunity to move at a
time when we could move all our
faculty together.”
Burnett said he recently
learned that the Old Forestry
Building is not planned for imminent demolition, and the facility
will be used as swing space for
other programs while renovations
occur elsewhere on campus.
With the upcoming $100 million plan to renovate Patrick Taylor
Hall, the space in the Old Forestry
Building will be used by areas of
the engineering department.
But the new school location in
Coates has other benefits.
Burnett said computer resources were slow in the Old
Forestry Building, largely due to
the fact that the facility was not
connected to the University fiber
optic cables. The new location in

Coates Hall, which was previously
occupied by computer science, will
allow for more efficient use of network resources.
Another benefit includes the
more-centrally located space on
campus, as having the school
in the Quad allows for easier
access.
Being a part of the newly
formed College of Human Sciences and Education, the new location puts the school closer to
other programs within the college.
The office for the college can be
found across the Quad from the
new school location in Peabody
Hall.
All in all, the new location will
look to benefit those who come
through the program.
The School of Human Resource Education and Workforce
Development prepares trainers in
training development positions
within businesses and industries,
according to Burnett.
“At the doctoral level, we’re
primarily preparing people who
will work at universities and in

University faculty positions,” he
said. “We do have a major emphasis on our program, also on leadership and leadership development,
and that can be very beneficial.”
Contact Lawrence Barreca at
lbarreca@lsureveille.com;
Twitter: @LawrenceBarreca

of her book bag, at which time a
black male approached her and
grabbed her computer. After yelling at the suspect while holding
onto her computer, the suspect ran
off.
At approximately 9:45 a.m.,
another robbery took place outside
of the 459 Commons. A male student was approached by a black
male who asked to use the student’s cell phone, but ran off before using the phone. The victim
was able to see the suspect get into
a older model truck with another
suspect.
Monday’s robberies occurred
just five days after an armed robbery on Highland Road at Tower
Drive.
According to Lalonde, the victim was walking down Highland
Road when he was approached by
a man wearing a mask.
The suspect then punched the
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Three on-campus robberies occur
within three hours of each other
According to LSUPD spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde, two robberies and one attempted robbery
happened in the span of just under
three hours Monday morning.
LSUPD believes the three robberies are related.
The first robbery, which happened at approximately 8:15 a.m.,
occurred after a female victim was
approached by a black male outside of Broussard Hall who asked
if he could used her cell phone.
After completing the call, the
suspect ran off with the victim’s
phone.
The second attempt took place
outside of West Campus Apartments at approximately 9:32 a.m.
The female victim was walking when she took her laptop out

in which he held a gun, knocking
the victim to the ground. While
the victim was on the ground, the
suspect stole his cell phone and
escaped in a grey-colored Toyota
SUV with another suspect.
These recent robberies have
caused LSUPD to step up patrols
throughout campus.
“We will be stepping up our
patrols in light of recent events; we
are reallocating resources in order
to be more proactive to stop incidents like this from happening,”
Lalonde said. “We are encouraging
students to report any and all suspicious behavior and to be aware
of their surroundings. By traveling
in groups, students can lessen the
opportunity for incidents like this
to occur.”
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page 4
Tickets, from page 1

Wednesday. By 11:00 p.m. that
evening, 85 students had submitted appeal assistance requests.
By 4:30 p.m. Friday, 334 students
submitted a request.
Of those 334 students, 61 percent were seniors and 10 percent
were juniors. Forty-eight sophomores and 15 freshmen also appealed, but this was most likely
because they believed they had
missed their ordering window
when, in fact, their windows hadn’t
arrived yet, according to Holley.
Thirty-two grad students or
fifth-year seniors also applied.
Holley and SG Chief of Staff
Joe Gipson worked to set up the
appeal form and create a document
to send to the Athletic Department
in order to help students get their
tickets.
The document was then sent
to the Athletic Department, and the
ticketing window was re-opened
for any students who faced the
spam issue.
Though SG is happy with
the student turnout, there are still

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problems that need to be solved.
in the future for people who didn’t
“I’m really excited that we have the ability to access things
had such a large turnout … but at like Student Government, because
the same time, it’s really concern- I don’t want that many people to
ing,
because
miss out on
if students are ‘I’m really proud of the way football tickmissing emails we performed, and I hope
ets,” Parks said.
that are so
In the end,
important
to that we’ll be able to continue the
administheir
experi- to do that, and I think it set tration
feels
ence here, what
that its efforts
this administration off in pushed the ordoes that mean
for the way
ganization in
the right direction.’
our servers are
the right direcworking, and
tion
heading
David Holley
do we need to
into the fall seSG Senate Director of Communications
re-evaluate the
mester.
way we’re getting out messages to
“I hope that, for us, we’re able
students?” said SG Vice President to remember that we served a valuTaylor Parks.
able purpose, and we have to be in
Parks also said that the spam tune to what students’ needs are,”
issue may have stemmed from the Holley said. “I’m really proud of
recent Gmail update, as the Ticket the way we performed, and I hope
Office has stated that it has not that we’ll be able to continue to do
changed its process of sending out that, and I think it set this adminemails to students.
istration off in the right direction.”
Regardless, she hopes more
solutions will be made available
Contact Lawrence Barreca at
following this debacle.
lbarreca@lsureveille.com;
“I’m hoping there are going
to be more options made available
Twitter: @LawrenceBarreca

Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Transition, from page 1

scholarships, providing technical
assistance to all campuses and early identification and intervention
for struggling students.
She also said the University
needs to expand its availability of
quality online courses, creating an
“always-on” University with Saturday and evening course offerings
and use experiential learning and
competency assessments to award
course credit.
Christel Slaughter, partner at
SSA Consultants, gave an example
of experiential learning.
“After you have been in the
military and have many, many
years of actual leadership … the
thought that you’re going to have
to come back and take an entry
level management or leadership

course seems odd,” Slaughter
said.
She later addressed the need to
modernize the University’s enterprise information systems, which
performs functions such as administering payroll and registering students.
“We are at risk of a potential
catastrophic failure,” Slaughter
said “We have no choice. We have
a legacy system that is obsolete. It
is serving us right now, but the further we go, the worse it is.”
The new system will be comprised of hosted or outsourced IT
system support models and is expected to initially cost $6 million
to $8 million.
Contact Taylor Schoen at
tschoen@lsureveille.com

ANGELA MAJOR / The Daily Reveille

Construction on Dalrymple Drive blocks a lane of traffic Monday as part of the Easy Streets II pedestrian traffic expansion.

“It was so late in the
summer that all the bidding was
pedestrians and provide addition- done and all the paperwork had
al bicycle access.
been completed that we didn’t
According to Director of think we’d be able to do the
Parking, Traffic
whole project in
‘This plan was
and Transportaone
go-round,”
tion Gary S. Gra- approved after a study Graham said. “So
ham, the bulk of
the decision was
the construction is three years ago — we’re made to split it
being done to imtwo phases,
only just now being into
prove pedestrian
with phase two
able to get to it.’
safety throughout
being completed
campus.
next summer.”
“This
plan
The
secGary S. Graham
was
approved
ond phase of
Director of Parking, Traffic
after a study
Easy
Streets
and Transportation
three years ago
II will address
— we’re only just now be- pedestrian problems around
ing able to get to it,” Graham the South Campus Drive and
said.
South Stadium Drive portion
According
to
Graham, of campus.
all of the construction is anticipated to be done by the time
the fall semester starts, which
Contact Trey Labat at
is one of the main reasons the
tlabat@lsureveille.com;
Easy Streets plan was split into
Twitter: @treylabat_TDR
two phases.

It’s an old coach’s saying in sports that all
any team can do is win the games that appear on
the schedule.
But if the games on that schedule are consistently harder than those played by an opponent,
should the coach say something?
Les Miles did.
The LSU coach addressed the inequalities
of the Southeastern Conference’s cross-division
scheduling process when he spoke Thursday at
SEC Media Days in Hoover, Ala. He started with
a backhanded shot at the schedule makers to
close out his opening statement.
“We look forward to lining up against the
best in the east and the best in the west,” Miles
said.
Miles was later asked about the discrepancy.
Speciﬁcally, he was asked about the difference
between LSU’s Eastern Division opponents —
Florida and Georgia, who went a combined 142 in conference last season — and Alabama’s
cross-division foes — Tennessee and Kentucky,
whose combined record was 1-15 in the SEC.
“I’d have to say there’s a repeated scheduling advantage and disadvantage for certain teams
in this conference based on tradition and traditional matchups,” Miles said Thursday.
This season will be the seventh time LSU
plays both Florida and Georgia in the regular
season since the SEC instituted divisional play
in 1992. In comparison, Alabama hasn’t been
scheduled to play the Gators and Bulldogs in the
same season since 1991.
Along with divisional play, the SEC also began playing a Conference Championship game
in 1992. Florida and Georgia have combined to
represent the Eastern Division in 15 of those 21
championship games.
Florida has a conference-high 10 of those
SCHEDULE, see page 11

LSU has played
Florida Georgia
and

in the
same
season

7

Alabama
hasn’t
played
both
since

1991.

times since

1992.

Cross-divisonal
opponents faced
since 1992*:

Tigers

Tide

Florida
Georgia
Kentucky

22
7
15

6
6
7

Vanderbilt
Missouri

6
0

Tennesee
South Carolina

8
6

22
8
14
1

*data includes 2013-14 season.

FOOTBALL

Coaches
express
disdain
over polls
Tyler Nunez
Contributing Writer

The media’s Preseason AllSoutheastern Conference football
teams and rankings were released on
Thursday — much to the dismay of
many SEC coaches who ﬁnd the predictions to be pointless.
Those on hand at SEC Media
Days chose LSU to ﬁnish third in
the SEC West with 1324 points and
seven ﬁrst-place votes.
The Tigers were placed behind
Alabama, who received 1681 points
with 225 ﬁrst-place votes, and Texas
A&M with 1333 points and 11 ﬁrstplace votes.
LSU coach Les Miles indicated
that he does not care where LSU
starts the season, but instead, where
it ﬁnishes.
“A year like this year, where
you are not necessarily picked No.
1, basically there is a responsibility
for us to control the outcome,” Miles
said. “… It really does not affect us
what the perimeter of that team room
says about them.”
Miles is not the only one who
sees ﬂaws in the system. Alabama
coach Nick Saban, whose team received 182 of 243 votes predicting it
to be the SEC Champion, called out
the media on the accuracy of these
predictions, calling the the process
“almost a little bit crazy.”
Saban noted that the media has
POLLS, see page 11

FOOTBALL

Jennings will get his chance
BARRECA’S LAW
LAWRENCE BARRECA
Staff Writer
Offensive coorindator Cam
Cameron inherited a new offense at
LSU that is nothing short of ordinary.
He has a tall, lanky, big-armed
quarterback, a dynamic backﬁeld, a
top-tier offensive line and receivers
who — when they actually hold on
to the ball — can provide a threat at
any level of the ﬁeld.
Cameron saw this exact same
formula play out to somewhat perfection in Baltimore, as the squad
would eventually become 2013 Super Bowl Champions.
Over the course of ﬁve
seasons as offensive coordinator for
the Ravens, Cameron took a young

power arm by the name of Joe Flacco and helped turn him into a World
Champion and Super Bowl MVP.
But there was always something Cameron would do that would
irk Ravens fans: he loved the mobile
QB, and he made sure anyone watching the game knew about it.
Many people have stated that
the 2013 Tigers will live and die with
Zach Mettenberger under center.
I believe they won’t.
Don’t get me wrong, I see
Mettenberger’s potential as much as
the next guy, and his performance in
2012 was nothing to hang his head
about. In a year where he threw for
2609 yards with 12 touchdowns and
seven interceptions against Southeastern Conference competition, the
now-senior QB stepped in and became a permanent starter for a program that previously had a revolving
door at the position.

But last season was a year where
Mettenberger — and only Mettenberger — was expected to lead the
offense. It was a general consensus
that backup Stephen Rivers wasn’t
ready at the time, and LSU coach
Les Miles stuck with his man until
the end.
But in 2013, things look a little
different.
Freshman QB Anthony Jennings, who has been raved about
since he impressed during spring
practices, brings athleticism to the
table that has Cameron gushing.
“The way I view Anthony —
Some people use the term ‘dualthreat quarterback’ and then ‘pocket
quarterback,’” Cameron told Tiger
Sports Digest before the 2013 Spring
Game. “I look at him as a pocket-mobile quarterback. He’s very bright.”
JENNINGS, see page 6

ANGELA MAJOR / The Daily Reveille

Freshman quarterback Anthony Jennings (10) is tackled by senior linebacker Lamin
Barrow (57) April 20, 2013 during the Spring Game in Tiger Stadium. Jennings has
replaced sophomore quarterback Steven Rivers as the backup.

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BASEBALL

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

LSU baseball team brings in several new faces
Trey Labat
Staff Writer

Consider the most recent
chapter of the LSU baseball team
ﬁnally closed.
Star players Mason Katz,
Raph Rhymes, Ryan Eades and
JaCoby Jones all left for the next
step of their careers — along with
numerous other players — leaving
coach Paul Mainieri to rebuild his
squad in an attempt to replicate
last season’s success.
“Putting together a new team
every year is what we do in athletics,” Mainieri said. “I feel as
if I’ve been handed a big pile of
clay, and as the sculptor of that
clay, it’s up to me to try to make
something beautiful out of it.”
Replacing the departed starters will be a mixture of key bench
players from last season — such
as Jared Foster and Chris Chinea
— and some of the 17 new players
Mainieri has recruited.
Of those recruits, 10 are pitchers, which will give Mainieri and

JENNINGS, from page 5

Cameron has been known to
ﬁnd ways to integrate mobile QBs
into his offensive schemes. During
his ﬁve seasons in Baltimore, he had
two such weapons: Former-Heisman
winner Troy Smith and Tyrod Taylor.
Throughout games, Cameron
would insert them into a number of
offensive packages — mostly for
running options — to help throw off
opposing defenses. The potential for
a runner with a cannon for an arm always seemed to intrigue him, and he
stuck with the strategy until his eventual ﬁring in December 2012.
If Smith wouldn’t have fallen
ill due to tonsil problems in 2008,
he would have been Baltimore’s

pitching coach Alan Dunn ample
bodies to replace the ﬁve arms
who left at the end of this season.
Though two of the top pitching prospects the Tigers signed
chose the MLB, the Tigers have
a couple of arms coming in who
could compete for playing time in
their ﬁrst season.
Right-hander Parker Bugg
was the only player who was selected in the MLB draft — he was
taken in the 34th round — who
decided to come to LSU. Bugg
is a mammoth at 6-foot-6 with a
low-90s fastball, but his “upside”
is something Mainieri said he was
most excited about.
“[Bugg] obviously has a tremendous ‘upside.’ He is a tall,
slender right-handed pitcher
from San Diego, California, who
projects as a guy that can potentially come in and help us right
away,” Mainieri said. “He has a
good feel for pitching and uses
an over-the-top low-90s fastball
with a major downhill plane to be
effective.”

Bugg suffered the same fate
as another highly-touted freshman, Alex Bregman. Bugg broke
his foot and missed the second
half of his senior season, causing
him to slip on MLB teams’ draft
boards.
The Tigers also mined LSUEunice for a couple of starting
caliber pitchers. Right-hander
Brady Domangue and southpaw
Zac Person were the Friday and
Saturday starters respectively for
LSU-E during the team’s run to
becoming national runners-up in
the 2012-13 season.
Domangue has a high-80s
fastball with downward movement who broke the LSU-Eunice
strikeout record during his career.
“[Domangue] is a guy who
will work quickly and absolutely pound the strike zone with a

sinking fastball that sits in the
high 80s but can touch the low
90s. He also has a super breaking ball that he uses as a strikeout
pitch,” Mainieri said. “Brady is
fun to watch because of his outstanding mound demeanor along
with a quick, but smooth delivery
to home plate.
Person is a lefty with an
average fastball and a wipeout
slider, but Mainieri said his best
attributes are his fast arm and
good mechanics, which allow
him to disguise his pitches and
make hitters uncomfortable in
the box.
The last pitcher who could
see playing time during his ﬁrst
year is true freshman Jared Poché.
Poché was named to the ﬁrst
team All-State in both his junior
and senior seasons, and according

to Mainieri, told MLB teams not
to draft him due to his desire to
play for LSU. As a southpaw, his
low-90s fastball and hard breaking curveball both project to be
effective at the college level.
“[Poché’s] fastball consistently sits in the 90-mph range and
he features a very hard 12 to six
curveball that he can command,”
Mainieri said. “This guy has a
chance to be special, and I can’t
wait to see the inﬂuence [pitching
coach] Alan Dunn will have on
him.”

starting QB ahead of Flacco. And
who knows what direction the franchise would have gone in from there?
All I will say is this: no one can
convince me that Jennings won’t get
his chance in 2013.
He’s too dynamic a weapon,
Mettenberger isn’t a Heisman candidate and Cameron loves a dual-threat
option.
We’ll just have to wait and see
if and when that chance will come.

Rolling Stone, other media glamorize criminals
ROB IN THE
HOOD
Robert Klare
Columnist
The cover of Rolling Stone
has paid homage to countless accomplished musicians, influential
political figures such as Barack
Obama or Mitt Romney and
movie stars like Clint Eastwood
or John Travolta. While the professions may vary, most subjects
are well respected or influential
in their respective fields, a feat
achieved by a lifetime of hard
work.
So Rolling Stone’s choice to
plaster the image of Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect
of the Boston Marathon bombing, comes as shock.
The official story from Rolling Stone is that the cover “falls
within the traditions of journalism and Rolling Stone’s longstanding commitment to serious
and thoughtful coverage of the
most important political and cultural issues of our day.”
A more likely story is the alleged bomber’s image is merely
bait to get the national media
to focus on Rolling Stone for
a while — which it has done very
well.
What the editors of Rolling
Stone fail to realize – or maybe
just don’t care about – is that
they are immortalizing someone accused of committing acts
of terrorism. They are elevating
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the acts
he is accused of committing into
a place normally only achievable by a lifetime of hard work.
This gives a clear message to everyone in the nation: the fastest,

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In response to the article “Middleton restricted section content varies,” readers wrote:
“Great idea for a story here.
Just good nuts and bolts journalism
that does not let the smallest detail
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would never have thought of this,

easiest way to get famous is still
mass murder and terrorism.
While people with a healthy
mindset will not be affected by
this message, a mentally unstable
individual might.
An average of about 1 million people attempt suicide every year, according to the CDC.
Many of these attempts are a
cry for help — the last resort of
someone desperate for attention.
When a person with this suicidal mindset sees the news coverage of these terrorist acts, they
see that setting off a few bombs
or shooting up a school will earn
them nonstop attention from media for weeks.
Therapists and analysts will
examine every detail of their life,
debating back and forth about
their motivations. People may
even become sympathetic to their
plight and see the killer as a victim as well.
A suicide attempt may
get some attention from a few
friends and family. Acts of
terrorism will get the attention of
a nation.
This glamorization of mass
murderers has been a longtime
tradition of the media, especially
the 24-hour news channels. But
while the news station’s coverage
of any mass killing will eventually end, Rolling Stone’s cover image will never go away. Tsarnaev
will be forever immortalized on
the front cover of one of the most
popular magazines in the nation,
making it a far more lasting message that the fleeting coverage of
the news stations.
Additionally, while the viewership of 24-hour news networks
are primarily middle aged people
— 75 percent over age 30 —
Rolling Stone’s demographics

are much younger, typically teenagers and young adults. Rolling
Stone’s readers are also disproportionately white and male. In
other words, people who read
Rolling Stone are likely to look
like Tsarnaev.
By putting Tsarnaev on the
front cover, Rolling Stone is almost saying to its readers, “This
guy looks just like you. He could
be you.”
Reading the Rolling Stone
article behind the image enforces this message and further immortalizes Tsarnaev. The article
spans a whopping 12 pages, filled
with the stories and images of
Tsarnaev and his older brother
from childhood to right before
the bombing.
The pages contain interviews
of the brothers’ friends, teachers and counselors. Without fail,
every single person vouches
that Tsarnaev was a normal kid
– someone who they just can’t
imagine doing what he is accused
of doing.
Why Rolling Stone thinks
this is “serious and thoughtful
coverage” is baffling. Almost
like clockwork, every time someone commits an act like this,
their friends and family are quick
to jump to the media and make
these claims. Phrases like “the
person I knew would never do
something like this” have almost
become cliché in the wake of a
tragedy like the Boston Marathon
bombing.
Interviews like this fill the
entire article as it attempts to explain the brother’s lives leading
up to the bombing of the Boston
Marathon.
The brothers’ parents were
divorced, their welfare benefits were cut, their rent was too

bookish though I am.”
- Jeff Smithpeters

knowledge that playing games online leads to a sordid array of verbal abuse. We can thank both the
anonymity of the internet and crass
immaturity for that. These trolls try
to get under your skin as quickly as
possible, so they’ll go off anything
that available. I think this is why
Anita was attacked with crude remarks about her gender. The twitter
trolls did the same thing with Marc
Anthony last night, only they used
his non-European heritage. Basically, whatever makes you different will be used against you. I fully
believe there will be improvements
over time, but for now it’s best to
just tune the hate out.”
- jb

In response to Elizabeth Garcia’s
column, “Video game industry
needs to embrace women,” readers
wrote:
“I agree with you, overall. The
gaming industry seemingly hasn’t
given a lot of effort to female protagonists. I think that’s because
male protagonists sell so well that
trying something new, especially
for a gaming franchise, could hurt
profits. Ultimately I think we’ll see
more diversity in the coming years.
I’m not sure if you’re a gamer yourself, Elizabeth, but it’s common

In this image released by Wenner Media, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev appears on the cover of the Aug. 1, 2013 issue of “Rolling Stone.”

high so they had to move and
Dzhokhar didn’t fit in at college.
Again, why Rolling Stone
thinks this is necessary to publish
is confusing. Is Rolling Stone
trying to justify the bombing?
Making the Tsarnaev brothers
out to be victims? Do they think
that the brothers deserve sympathy?
Whatever their intention, the
article is overwhelmingly positive, considering the situation.
An uninformed reader could read
almost the entire article without
realizing that the subject has been
accused of terrorism.
Rolling Stone immortalized

someone who is accused of mass
murder and terrorism. This earns
them a quick jump in notoriety
but ensures that these mass murders will continue to be something glamorized by the media.

“It isn’t just women that are
underrepresented in games. Video
game protagonists are overwhelmingly white, american, male, middle
aged, medium build, brown hair,
with a bit of scruff. It’s gotten to the
point where I feel like I’m playing
the same character over and over
again in different games.”
- Tom504
In response to the article “NBC’s
‘Dateline’ recaps Schunick kidnapping,” readers wrote:

for MICKEY! I will not even mention the person that MURDERED
her as he is dead and will be forgotten, but MICKEY she will live on
forever. What a beautiful person
she must have been as one can see
through the support of friends and
like me a person who never had the
pleasure of being in her presence.
CHARLENE you rock in my eyes
and I hope your higher power helps
you heal as you mourn the loss of
your lovely sister!”
- HigherPower

“I watched the Television special on this MURDER of this beautiful angel MICKEY and I was deeply touched by the outpour of support

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Quote of the Day

“When I started working for Rolling
Stone, I became very interested in
journalism and thought maybe that’s
what I was doing, but it wasn’t.”

Annie Leibovitz
photographer
Oct. 2, 1949 — present

The Daily Reveille

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Opinion

page 9

Oregon college tuition approach could be a good idea
LIZZY ON THE
LOOSE
Elizabeth Garcia
Columnist
Oregon legislators are in the
spotlight after voting to have a
commission study a new tuition
plan for state public colleges. The
plan, known as Pay It Forward,
provides a means to pay back tuition costs as a percentage of income, rather than fixed payment
installments on a loan package. If
the committee finds the plan will
work, it could be implemented as
early as 2015.
While the idea seems great
on paper, application will be very
tricky.
Taxpayers would still be
responsible for a portion of the
state’s higher education bill. Start
up of the plan would take about
$9 billion over a quarter-century
before enough former students
are paying into the program to
cover its costs and keep the program self-sufficient.
Considering Oregon has no
sales tax and only relies on property and income taxes, it could be
difficult to find the money. Funding outside of taxes would absolutely be necessary.
Audrey Peck and John Burbank, executive directors of the
Economic Opportunity Institute,
created the plan in a policy paper
last year. It is modeled after Australia’s current tuition system.
The basic idea is this: You

J. Scott Applewhite / The Associated Press

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chair of the Senate Education Committee, announces to reporters July 18 that a bipartisan agreement
was reached on rates for government student loans. Oregon legislators recently passed a bill that could decrease student loans.

earn a lot, you pay a lot; you
earn a little, you pay a little. But
most importantly, nobody has to
take out loans to cover the cost of
classes.
“[Students] pay a small percentage of their adjusted gross
income for a number of years after college: 0.75 percent per year
of community college, or 1 percent per year of university, for 25
years,” Peck and Burbank said.
However, Oregon’s current
take on Pay It Forward is much
more vague. Currently, the bill’s
text doesn’t provide a specific

percentage or payment period.
Supporters of the bill told The
New York Times the approximate
numbers are 3 percent over 20 to
24 years.
Despite the roadblocks that
need to be overcome, the plan has
some serious upsides that make it
worthwhile to look into.
The plan would eliminate
most student loans. Considering federal student loan interest doubled last week, this is a
significant win. Any scholarship
money that a student does receive
doesn’t have to go to tuition and

instead can be spent on living expenses, housing, books, groceries
or whatever they want.
In addition, if students don’t
have to worry about student
loans, they have an incentive to
choose a career based on personal fulfillment, rather than one that
pays significantly more in order
to pay down student debt.
The plan is also very progressive in that the future “1 percent” will pay the most for their
educations. Graduates who have
devoted themselves to low-pay
careers, including teaching, will

pay the least.
In addition, poor students
might strive for opportunities
they couldn’t before. Some lowincome students do not apply to
top schools due to the “sticker
shock,” according to Associate
Professor of education policy
studies and sociology Sara Goldrick-Rab of the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
Many students see the price
and assume they can’t afford it,
even if the admissions office
promises that they’ll provide ample financial aid.
Under Pay It Forward, upfront tuition is no longer an issue, and there’s no need to guess
about grants and other aid.
The plan is far from being
implemented and has quite a few
kinks to work out, but it has heart.
The national attention garnered by this plan goes to show
how frustrated Americans have
become with student debt. There
is no easy solution to solving the
student debt crisis and reducing
higher education cuts, and while
the plan is a good start, we can
only hope Oregon politicians and
the committee will find the best
solutions for students.
Elizabeth Garcia is a 21-year-old
mass communication senior from
Greensboro, N.C.

Contact Elizabeth Garcia
at egarcia@lsureveille.com

Group projects do not work as professors intend
THE
TRADITIONALIST
Chris Ortte
Columnist
Although it is an inevitable
facet of college, the group project assignment may be the most
unproductive form of learning we
encounter. To consider it a form
of learning is a stretch.
Professors and instructors
may say, “Oh, what a great way
to promote team-building skills
and learn to work with others.”
But this almost never happens.
Let me propose a quick
recap of how group projects go
down.
First, your professor or instructor announces that, instead
of being an old fashioned teacher
and assigning you a term paper, he or she will be giving
you an opportunity to work in
groups.
Sounds great right? Wrong.
Professors can be the best
salesmen sometimes, selling you
on the idea that you’ve got so

much time to get to work on this
project and that they are giving
you a great advantage with such
a head start.
For those who aren’t sitting
on a trust fund and care somewhat for their grades, the following will ensue.
You, as well as every one of
your potential group members —
save maybe the overly sweet girl
who sits in the front row, asks all
the questions and has her binders
color-coded with pink and purple
tabs — will proceed to put this
project off.
What a group project is supposed to promote — open communication and interaction —
proves to be the hindrance of the
project.
Since our classes are a short
semester long, and for the most
part you do not know anyone
in your class, much less your
group, there is not much incentive to meet people who will not
be around you for much longer.
Therefore, there is not much
communication.
If you have taken a lowerlevel foreign language you will
know what I mean. You don’t

know a soul in your class, so you
don’t want to open your mouth
and sound like a fool.
Likewise, as the semester
passes your group will initiate a group email, which no one
will have the urge to check often. Ideas will be passed around
timidly.
Those ideas that are bad
will hang around for awhile because no one wants their toes to
be stepped on, and those ideas
that may have potential may
ride the bench for the reason
no one wants to sound like the
group idiot.
So as the semester goes on
with parties, football games,
other exams and other papers,
suddenly you get an email from
your professor: “Hope you guys
having been working diligently
with your group. The end of semester group project is coming
up.”
Of course you haven’t.
No one in your group has anything to do with anything in
your life outside of this group
project.
So it’s crunch time, and the
group finally meets at the front

of Middleton, where you then
proceed to deliberate over where
in Middleton the group should
go over the project. This is the
deciding point. Whoever takes
the initiative as to where you all
should sit will most likely lead
the group and be the final editor
in the project.
In
other
words,
the
one who deserves all the
credit.
This may be you, because you are fed up with how
this project is proceeding and
want it done, or maybe it’s the
color-coded binder girl who
has already done it. In that
case, celebrate, and then check
her work.
But perhaps the most wrong
portion of a group project is the
most important — how they are
graded.
Nine times out of ten it will
be one collective grade per group
for each member. The obvious
problem here is the existence of
freeloaders, whom each professor would deem unacceptable,
but lack the care to prevent them
or do anything about when it
does occur.

You’ll get, “Tough. It happens.”
Even if group members are
allowed to grade each other individually, that will not account
for the group’s entire grade,
and rarely does anyone give
the freeloader the grade they deserve.
In smaller, upper-level, major-specific courses, group work
is exponentially more feasible
and productive.
Group projects are busy
work that do not promote learning, but more so memorizing; do
not endorse actual group work,
but create a “messiah” of the
group. Regardless, they are still
inevitable.
Tough. They happen.
Chris Ortte is a 21-year-old
political science senior from
Lafayette.

THE LIBRARY IS for people who are
actually trying to study; not people
who think putting themselves in a quiet
place will make them actually study. I
don’t want to hear you whispering or
eating.
TO THE PEOPLE that live on the ﬂoor
above me, I am not quite sure why you
are running in your apartment but I am
sick of hearing a herd of elephants at
all hours of the night.
DEAR ROOMMATE, please be a
normal person and not cook at 9 PM
just because you have to wait on your
boyfriend to do anything.
Everyone around me is getting
engaged and graduating and I’m just
over here like, “Hey look, I haven’t lost
TOPS yet!”
I love watching hours of you playing
Call of Duty... said no girlfriend ever.
DEAR ROOMMATE, by deﬁnition,
an anniversary happens once a year.
So, when you’re all up on Facebook
every four months bragging about your
anniversary, I have to question your
intelligence.
TO THE FAST FOOD ESTABLISHMENT by LSU who I won’t name- It’s
called fast food, NOT, “Let Me Call My
Friends and Talk About Boyfriend Problems Then Worry About the Fact That
You’ve Been Waiting for 20 Minutes
Food.” I’m not eating this crap because
it’s nutritious, I’m eating it because I’m
in a hurry. Speed it up!

PRESCHOOL MUSIC TEACHER
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Email your resume to cdshighland@
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EXTENDED DAY COUNSELORS
Now hiring for Extended Day Counselors for The YMCA of The Capital
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SPANISH & FRENCH ASSISTANTS
Private school hiring Spanish and
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Hours 8 am to 4 pm. $7.66/hour. Possibility to work before and after care.
Send resume to brisla@yahoo.com.

COUNTER CLERK
part time afternoon position available ﬂexible hours, great for students.
Welsh’s Cleaners College Dr. @
Perkins Rd. apply in person
LSU GUMBO YEARBOOK is seeking
page designers. Qualiﬁed candidates
must have experience with the Adobe
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and an eye for pleasing design. Open
to all majors. Paid position, ﬂexible
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under deadlines. Must be available one
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Tuesday, July 23, 2013
SCHEDULE, from page 5

appearances and has won the
SEC Championship Game seven
times — more than any other
school. As part of the traditional
matchups Miles mentioned, the
Tigers and Gators meet every
season.
Alabama’s yearly crossdivisional opponent is Tennessee.
The Volunteers have appeared in
five SEC Championship Games
— the same number as Georgia
and LSU.
Kentucky, Vanderbilt and
Missouri are the only SEC East
teams who have never appeared
in the conference title game.
Since 1992, LSU and Alabama
have each played a combined 21
games against those three teams.
In those seasons, Alabama
has played more cross-division
games against Vanderbilt than
any other opponent besides Tennessee. Vanderbilt has a record
of 79-164 during that stretch —
good for a .325 winning percentage, the worst in the SEC.
After this season, LSU and
Alabama will have each played
64 cross-divisional games. LSU
will have played 22 against Florida, 15 against Kentucky, eight
against Tennessee, seven against
Georgia and six against Vanderbilt and South Carolina.
In comparison, Alabama will
have played 22 against Tennessee, 14 against Vanderbilt, eight
against South Carolina, seven
against Kentucky, six against
Florida, six against Georgia and
one against Missouri.
SEC Commissioner Mike

Slive said the conference is going
to review the football scheduling
process when he gave his opening statement at the SEC Media
Day on Tuesday. He said the conference is considering switching
from its current eight-game conference format to a nine-game
format in order to better balance
the schedule.
However, he also said the
proposed changes would not go
into effect until the 2016 season.

only chosen the correct team to win
the SEC four times in the past 21
years.
“Now, if I was 4-17 as a coach,
I would be back in West Virginia
pumping my gas at my daddy’s gas
station,” Saban said.
Despite what coaches may think
of them, there is little chance these
preseason polls and rankings will go
away any time soon.
LSU had nine players featured
in the Preseason All-SEC Football
Teams. Three of these Tigers were
voted onto the first team.
Junior defensive tackle Anthony Johnson was the third defensive

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lineman voted onto the team with 127
votes behind South Carolina junior
defensive end Jadeveon Clowney
— 223 votes — and Florida senior
defensive tackle Dominique Easley
— 162 votes.
LSU senior safety Craig Loston
— 135 votes — was also voted onto
the first team as the second defensive
back behind Alabama junior defensive back Ha Ha Clinton-Dix — 203
votes.
The final Tiger to be named to
the first team was junior wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., who received
the most votes for the return specialist position with 74 votes.
Beckham was also featured as
the all-purpose player on the second

team. He was joined by LSU senior
linebacker Lamin Barrow, who was
featured on the second-team defense.
The Tigers had three members
on the preseason All-SEC Third
Team offense in senior running back
Alfred Blue, junior offensive tackle
La’el Collins and senior offensive
guard Josh Williford.
LSU senior linebacker Tahj
Jones and sophomore cornerback
Jalen Mills also received enough
votes to be put on the third team.